Amos 5:2

“You are like [MET] a young woman, but in spite of that, you will certainly be struck down and you will never get up again! You will lie on the ground, abandoned, and there will be no one to help you stand up.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

In Context

1You people [MTY] of Israel, listen to this funeral song that I will sing about you:

3This is what Yahweh the Lord says to the people [MTY] of Israel: “When your enemies attack you, and when 1,000 of your soldiers will go to a battle, there will be only 100 who will survive. When 100 soldiers march out from a city to fight, there will be only ten who will remain alive.”

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Cross References

2 Kings 17:16The Israeli people disobeyed all of Yahweh’s commands. They made two metal calves to worship. They set up two poles to worship the goddess Asherah, and they worshiped the god Baal, and the sun, the moon, and the stars.

Isaiah 14:21People will say, ‘Slaughter this man’s children because of the sins that their ancestors committed! Do not allow them to become rulers and conquer all the nations in the world, and fill the world with the cities that they rule!’”

Isaiah 37:22this is what I say to him: ‘The people of Jerusalem despise you and make fun of you. They will wag/shake their heads to mock you while you flee from here.

Isaiah 51:17You people of [APO] Jerusalem, wake up [DOU]! You have experienced Yahweh severely punishing [MTY] you. Yahweh has caused you to suffer much, all that he wanted you to suffer, like [MET] someone who causes another person to suffer by forcing him to drink every drop of [MTY] a cupful of bitter liquid.

Jeremiah 4:20Disasters will occur one after another until the whole land is ruined. Suddenly all our tents will be destroyed; even the curtains inside the tents will be ripped apart.

Jeremiah 9:21because people will be dying [PRS] in your houses and in palaces. There will be no more children playing in the streets, there will be no more young men gathering in the city squares/marketplaces.

Matthew Henry on Amos 5:2-4

Invitations and Warnings. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. 3 For thus saith the Lord God ; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. This chapter begins, as those two next foregoing began, with, Hear this word. Where God has a mouth… Read the whole commentary →

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